" The European and American tours combined do not see that number of quality golf courses in a whole season."

Mike Clayton on rotating Melbourne courses for the Australian Masters and what that has meant in the past:

In 1981, my first year on the tour, we played the Australian Open at Victoria, the PGA Championship at Royal Melbourne, the Victorian Open at Metropolitan, the Westpac Classic at Royal Adelaide, the South Australian Open at Kooyonga and almost every other year we seemed to be playing the immaculate holes at Kingston Heath. The European and American tours combined do not see that number of quality golf courses in a whole season.